KSHV antibodies among Americans, Italians and Ugandans with and without Kaposi's sarcoma

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 925-927

  Gao, Shou Jiang ^a   Kingsley, Lawrence ^b   Li, Ming ^c   Zheng, Wei ^c   Parravicini, Carlo ^d   Ziegler, John ^e   Newton, Robert ^f   Rinaldo, Charles R ^b   Saah, Alfred ^g   Phair, John ^h   Detels, Roger ⁱ   Chang, Yuan ^c   Moore, Patrick S ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c The New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 8; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; ITALY; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; UGANDA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16044368963     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0896-925     Document Type: Article

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